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U.K. Lawmaker Calls For All Knives To Be Registered, Fitted With GPS Trackers
Breitbart ^ | 3-14-2019

Posted on 03/14/2019 2:34:01 PM PDT by blam

Tory MP Scott Mann has attracted mockery on social media after calling for strict new knife control measures including for every blade sold in the UK to be fitted with GPS tracking systems.

In a post on the micro-blogging platform Twitter, the representative for North Cornwall went on to declare that Britain should create a “national database” of people who own knives, “like we do with guns”.

Anyone found to have carried a knife outside their property “had better have a bloody good explanation”, Mr Mann wrote, adding that there could be “obvious exceptions” for activities such as fishing.

Responses to the MP’s suggestion included ridicule, as well as many questions not only on the considerable expense of fitting every knife sold with GPS tracking equipment small enough to fit into the handles, but also over the practicality of monitoring tens of millions of knives considering the UK’s high population density and the fact such systems are accurate only to about five metres, or just over 16 feet.

Surging knife violence including a fivefold increase in machete attacks over the past three years has led to a significant crackdown on blades in Britain, with many stores voluntarily taking kitchen knives off the shelves as lawmakers call for an increasing number of restrictions to tackle the problem.

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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; knives; knoves; uk; weapons
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To: blam

Do butter knives have to be registered, too?


41 posted on 03/14/2019 3:25:20 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: blueplum
so why aren’t the perps identified and arrested?

Because that would be racist. The cops involved would likely be fired, and might face criminal prosecution.

42 posted on 03/14/2019 3:25:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Spok

Then, they’ll just outlaw grinders and files


43 posted on 03/14/2019 3:25:53 PM PDT by digger48
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To: blam

The USA certainly doesn’t have the corner on idiot legislators.


44 posted on 03/14/2019 3:27:39 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: DannyTN

My ex once went after me with one of those little wire and roller cheese slicers.

You could take a person down with one of those.

One layer at a time


45 posted on 03/14/2019 3:28:22 PM PDT by digger48
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To: blam
Proving that the problem isn't the tool - be it a firearm or a knife. The problem is the intent of the person carrying it. You cannot legislate safety, cannot write a law that stops evil intent. The shocking (to liberals) truth is that people actually have to take a little personal responsibility for their own safety. I know I know, the phrase "personal responsibility" makes the libtard snowflakes run for their safe space...

Guess what, Mr. Colt was right about the great equalizer. Want to give your 105 lb wife a fighting chance against the 6'4" 200+ lb would-be rapist? Put a firearm in her hand, train her how to use it, and make sure she has it with her all the time.

46 posted on 03/14/2019 3:29:13 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: blam

Rocks are next.


47 posted on 03/14/2019 3:31:03 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: digger48

Then I wouldn’t let her near a potato peeler either.


48 posted on 03/14/2019 3:32:23 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: blam

Official sounding man on phone: “Sir, the government has just detected - via GPS - that your 3-inch, stainless steel, butter knife has been moved from it’s secure silverware drawer, to your kitchen table...can you explain?”

“Yes”, replied the homeowner, “we’re having dinner and want to put butter on our bread.”.

Fed guy, “Thank you sir, and I’ll be looking for your 4561-1265 form - in triplicate - further explaining this incident, and signed by you, and all those who had contact with said butter knife. Have a good evening.”


49 posted on 03/14/2019 3:36:00 PM PDT by FrankR (How to get a one-armed SOCIALIST out of a tree...wave to him.)
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To: blam

And you thought banning straws was bad.


50 posted on 03/14/2019 3:43:42 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Osage Orange
What about forks?

Will they also outlaw "Spooning"? How about pre-marital interdigitation? They are getting crazier and crazier.

51 posted on 03/14/2019 3:51:23 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Osage Orange
What about knitting needles?

What about men armed with Bananas?

52 posted on 03/14/2019 3:53:14 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: blam

It was supposed to be humor. Humor.

53 posted on 03/14/2019 3:55:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: blam

IOW, nothing but jello will now be served at the church pot luck.


54 posted on 03/14/2019 3:56:15 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: Osage Orange

Do scimitars, machetes and axes fall under this law?


55 posted on 03/14/2019 3:59:56 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: blam

You see your honor, when my fishing boat capsized the GPS chip must have shorted out.


56 posted on 03/14/2019 4:04:26 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: blam

Source.... the Onion, right?


57 posted on 03/14/2019 4:05:19 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: blam

Are you sure this is not Babylon Bee???


58 posted on 03/14/2019 4:10:43 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Osage Orange

Yeah, I’d sure hate to get forked.


59 posted on 03/14/2019 4:24:12 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: DuncanWaring

A swinging kettlebell of any weight can impart significant kinetic energy.


60 posted on 03/14/2019 4:29:59 PM PDT by gasport (The dung beatle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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